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Carpe CONTENTdm!Congruous Coaxing and Customization
Glee WillisDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Nevada, Reno
CONTENTdm Success Stories for Total Digital Collection Management June 24, 2006 ALA New Orleans
CONGRUOUS
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· What Are We Trying to Accomplish with CONTENTdm?
· How Do We Decide on Our Collections? For Whom Are We Building Them?
· Challenges We’ve Faced And Overcome
· Coping Mechanisms
· What’s On The Horizon?
What Will I Cover?
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What Are We Trying To Accomplish?
a. Provide “Guided Tours” of Our Digital Collections
b. Build Aesthetically Pleasing Collection “Experiences”
c. Provide Geospatial Access Not Previously Provided
d. Provide Global Access to Uniquely-Held Resources
e. Provide Restricted Access to Teaching Collections
f. Build Comprehensive Databases for Entire Image Collections (Anywhere on Campus)
g. Foster Cross-Campus Collaborations (Campus Photos Collection)
h. ALL OF THE ABOVE
A “guided tour”
An aesthetically pleasing collection “experience”
Geospatial access to collection content
Global access to uniquely-held resources
Creation of a comprehensive database
Restricted access to teaching collections
Cross-campus collaborations
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How Do We Decide on Our Collections? For Whom Are We Building Them?
a. Started with the Obvious – Lake Tahoe
b. Got Practice Under Our Belts With A Few MoreCollections (Barns, Lincoln Highway, Historic Maps)
c. Other Areas Outside of Special Collections Began to Understand What They Could Do With CONTENTdm(Basque Posters, La Baskonia, Nevada Ag Pubs)
d. Now We Feel Confident Enough To Build Comprehensive Collections (Entire Photo Collections)
Audiences: The General Public Scholars and Researchers Users of Teaching Collections Campus Community PR Office
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Challenges We’ve Faced And Overcome
1) Getting So Much Done With So Few People
Content providers are responsible for arranging for scanning of resources Content providers are responsible for creating metadata for the resources
Digital Projects Librarian runs around behind the curtains, making sure everything is working properly -- no matter how many server crashes, newversions, new code languages, new procedures for customizing, new nifty
“add-ons”, and new collections come her way
SysAdmin keeps server running, backed up, and updated with new versions
Web Librarian works with content providers to create beautiful “portals”
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Herding All The Cats
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Challenges We’ve Faced And Overcome
2) Convincing Administrators To Stick With CONTENTdm
3) Being Early Adopters of New Versions and New Extensions
4) Lots and Lots of Technical Hurdles
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Coping Mechanisms
Collection-Specific Customizations
JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats
Advanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current Collection
Collection Within A Collection
ca. dates
VRA Template Implementations
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Collection-Specific Customizations
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Collection-Specific Customizations
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Collection-Specific Customizations
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JPEG2000 vs. Links to Alternative File Formats
From Drawer to Digital: A Statewide Collaboration for Building Digital Historical Maps Collections
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Advanced Search Checkboxes Restricted to Current Collection
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Collection Within A Collection
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ca. Dates
Entering date ranges ONLY works in the Acq Station.. You must alsoedit ANY record that includes a date range ONLY in the Acq Station.When you enter a date range into a “date” data type field in the Acq Station,it will automatically convert the range into the equivalent individual dates.
Entering this:
Becomes this:
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VRA Template Implementation for Art and Architecture Collections
Ed Teague’s Crosswalk – Our Starting Point
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VRA Template Implementation for Art and Architecture Collections
Our Data Dictionary, Modeled After Ed’s Crosswalk
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What’s On The Horizon?
TOC
Spell
E-Commerce
Trilingual Interface
More Research Guides
More Geospatial Searches More Document Collections
Extraction of Metadata from TIFF Headers
Web 2.0
THANK YOU!Contact info:Glee WillisDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Nevada, [email protected]
Our digital projects are at:http://contentdm.library.unr.edu